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Jump in! The shopping's fine. And with 17.8%
off until Midnight, May 31st, MDT, you'll be making a splash with beautiful, new
pages created with all your new goodies! Don't miss out on this one,
unless you want to be all wet!
What's New in the Scrap Girls Boutique?
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If you have praise, comments, or questions
for any of our Product or Layout Designers, did you know you can send
them a PM (private message) using the message board? It's easy!
If you are a registered user of the message
board, just click on the "PM" box at the bottom of any of
their posts to send them a message. Or, to check out more of your favorite
designer's layouts, visit the Scrap
Girls Design Team section of the Layout Gallery.
Life Muses by Ro: Avoiding Digital Scrapbooking Meltdowns – Part 2
Burning a CD
Originally uploaded by corsec67
Maybe this isn't exactly the picture I should use when advising you to back up your digital scrapbooking supplies and your digital photos on DVDs, right? But it does speak volumes about what it is like to lose your data.
Years ago, my husband and son got the bright idea that they needed to back up our computer before they upgraded us to Windows 95. Of course, they didn't know what they were doing... and they backed me up to a zip drive... and then they failed to check the data for accuracy after they were finished. This meant that once my computer had the new operating system on it, all of my data (years of composing - orchestrations - songs - you name it) was gone.
So now that I've horrified you with a lost data story, let's talk about how you can back up your digital scrapbooking layouts, supplies and photos to DVDs.
Here are the critical things to remember:
1. Back up your files to DVD+R, as this media type is the most stable and reliable. Do not use rewritable media (such as CD-RW or DVD-RW).
2. Do not use labels (stickers) on your DVDs.
3. If you write on the label, make sure that the marker is non-solvent (the non-stinky kind).
4. The DVDs should be stored vertically. You want to protect the surface.
5. It's a good idea to create a contact sheet so that you can remember what you have placed on the DVD. It is much easier than going through your stash of DVDs when you are trying to locate a single photo or digital scrapbooking paper.
Making a Contact Sheet
Many software programs have options for making contact sheets, but if you use a PC, there is a lazy-daisy way and I'm always up for those. Fast is good. Here's all you do. (Note: I'm demonstrating this on an XP computer. I’m going to show you how to do this again in more detail on a Vista computer in an upcoming episode of this series.)
1. Browse to the folder that holds the files you want to make the contact sheet for.
2. Right-click on one of the files and then choose the Photo Printer Wizard option.
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3. Select all of the photos or digital scrapbooking supply images you want to be on the contact sheet.
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4. Go through the printer dialog
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5. When you go on, the contact sheets will be sent to your printer.
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Next time... Some ways to track what you have and have not backed up.
- Ro
Note from Ro: Would you like to earn a $20 Gift Certificate, too? Send your own
muse to [email protected]. If it is selected
for publication in the Scrap Girls newsletter, you'll get to have
fun shopping!
Muse: To be absorbed in one's thoughts;
engage in meditation. Not intended to solve the world's problems,
another person's problems, or to cover topics completely. One does
not have to agree with musings to enjoy them just as one does not
have to be the same as someone else to appreciate who they are.
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Note from Ro: Answer
a survey question and maybe you'll win a portable hard drive!
Okay blog and Scrap Girls newsletter fans...
I'm going to do a question survey in my blog and
then draw a name from the people who respond to the question
to see who wins this portable external hard drive. It
will be perfect to take with you when you go to crops, on vacation
or even perhaps, the Scrap
Girls Digital Scrap Link Convention in Salt Lake City this
October! (That is, if you hurry up and get one of the remaining
slots.) You can throw your photos and supplies on it you want
to use while you are away from home and then transfer them back
onto your bigger computer or storage media when you come back
again. Awesome!
Just enter your reply at the bottom of the blog
post and you'll be entered into the contest. You must give
me your email address (it won't be visible to blog viewers)
so that I can email you should you win. It would be best if
you subscribe to my blog because I will announce the winner
in it, and that will make sure you find out if you are the
winner!
Western Digital WDXMS1200TN Passport 120 GB USB 2.0 Portable
Hard Drive
QUESTION: How did you find
Scrap Girls?
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Enjoy an eBook collection of Ro's
popular Life Muses from the first half of 2006 in an easy way to print,
save, or purchase as a gift for someone you love.
Tutorial: Tinting Black & White Photos
Note: Tutorial Created using Photoshop Elements 5.0.
If you have seen scrappers tint photos with chalk, here's a great digital way to get the same effect.
Start by changing your color photo to black and white. In PSE5, you do this by selecting
Enhance>Convert to Black & White or adjust the saturation all the way down.
Next, create a new layer on top of your photo. Change the opacity of this layer to around 32%.
Next, select a soft edge brush around 200 pixels in size and choose a color you would like to “chalk” or “tint” with. For this photo I am choosing beach colors: sandy brown and blues.
Using the brush, move your mouse over the areas that you want to tint. It's OK if you brush some color in areas you don't want, be free with it. You can always go back over it later with the eraser.
Continue with coloring other areas of your photo. You'll notice that I got some of the blue on the faces of my subjects. So we'll take that off now.
Choose the eraser, approximately the same size as your brush and bring the opacity down to around 35-36%. You want to brush away some of the color, but not make it obvious. Then, just stroke over the areas that you want to clean up.
Next, I merge the layers together and add a sepia tint to the entire photo to give it a more vintage look. Lower the opacity of the sepia layer to 21% to allow your color to show through. To finish the layout, add your embellishments and journaling.
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Online Classes Available
A
Month of Memories
June 6 and 27 - 4:00PM ET
New
Class Offering!
How to Emboss and Texturize with ScrapSimple Templates in PSE
June 3 and 10 - 9:00PM ET
What's Happening at Scrap Girls?
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You asked for it. You begged for it. You
demanded it. And now, we are pleased to announce that yes,
it is finally going to happen... Scrap Girls is having a
digital scrapbooking convention!
Here are the facts:
When: October 9-11th, 2008
- Note: Convention begins at 1:00 pm - Thursday, October
9th and ends at 6 pm - Saturday, October 11th.
How many people may attend?
- Registration for our event has been open for just a few
weeks and we are already 71% sold out. Only
33 of the 120 originally available registration openings
are still available. If
you wait too long to sign up, there is a chance you will
miss out on this awesome event. We don't want that to happen
to you, so sign up now!
Where: Salt Lake City, Utah
Location: To-die-for historic building
called the "Officer's Club", located at historic Fort Douglas
UPDATE: Lynda Angelastro
and April Anderton from Digital Scrapbook Magazine have volunteered
to come! They are going to teach a class about how to get published,
and they are bringing goodies for our treat bags!
For more information, or to sign up, please visit our Scrap
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you know that you can subscribe to Scrap Girls RSS feeds? Look for
this icon at the bottom left-hand corner of the message board forum listing.
We have two feeds:
 Scrap
Girls Digital Scrapbooking Message Board (See the latest chatter
on the board.)- Scrap
Girls Radio Digital Scrapbooking Podcast (This is a sound
broadcast with tips and tricks, inside news and dirt, chat/crop
updates and more. Ro is your show host.)
New! Subscribe to
our Podcast through iTunes! Learn how on our forum.
You can listen to the podcast with QuickTime, Windows
Media Player, iTunes, or even your iPod - if you load the mp3 file
it on it. Just download the mp3 file to your computer and away you
go... or simply click on the podcast link and the podcast will start
right in your browser. You can also access the podcast through the
Scrap Girls Radio forum on the message board.
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Swap
Crop Chat
Friday, May 30th -
9:00PM ET
It's time for the Swap Crop Chat! We've done
the swapping, and created the layouts, now it's time to chat
about all the gorgeous layouts! I don't know what it is, but
these swaps bring out the best in everyone. This is the time
to chat about the theme, the beautiful layouts and learn about
the swap crop if you haven't participated before. I'll even reveal
the theme for next month! Join me, Carla, for a fun chat at 9PM
ET!
Pajama
Party
Saturday, May 31st
- 9:00PM ET
Join angelaNussbaum and scrappylibrarian for
the monthly Pajama Party. We will start the chat at 9PM and we
will party! So put on your pajamas, get your snacks together
and meet us in the chat room lobby. Oh, and of course there will
be scrapping and chocolate involved!
Scraplift Crop
Sunday, June 1st
- 7:00PM ET
Join AngelaNussbaum and TysMommy for a Scraplifting Crop. A few hours before the crop we will tell you the name of a Scrap Girls Team Member, and you will be able to choose one of their layouts to be your inspiration.
During the crop we will also help explain about scraplifting, how to use a layout as inspiration, and the importance of giving credit. Scraplifting is a lot of fun! So come join us, you're sure to enjoy it!
**please note that we are doing this at a different time this week!**
High
Noon Crop
Wednesday, June 4th
- 12:00Noon ET
Join your host Betsy for
the High Noon Crop every Wednesday at Noon eastern time. These
crops are designed to allow you to work on your own photos and
themes, simply giving participants a one hour goal, and a fun,
new challenge each week!
On June 4, we'll do a 3-photo challenge! Create a layout using
3 photos, no more, no less!
You'll have one hour to create a layout and upload to the special
High Noon Crop gallery. You'd be amazed what you can get done
in just one hour! Meet new friends and have fun in the chat room!
We hope you'll join us!
Textile
Challenge Crop
Wednesday, June 4th
- 9:00PM ET
Join Launa & Zaz,
for a Textile Challenge and Crop, we will meet the first Wednesday
of each month at 9pm EST in the Scrap Girls Chat Room!
Do the paterns, textures, and colors of textiles facinate you?
Do you get inspiration from anything from pillows to your grandmothers
apron? Then this challenge is for you!
A few hours before the challenge begins, I'll post a textile
for you to use as the starting point for your page. You may be
inspired by the colors, placement of patterns, textures... just
let it be your inspiration! I can't wait to see what you come
up with!! See you there!
Quote/Word Art Crop
Sunday, June 8th
- TBA
Come join angelaNussbaum for the Quote Challenge Crop!
Here's how it will work. On Sunday, I'll post a thread on the challenge board giving you the quote which you will use to make your own word art. It's not hard, and I will even have a layout with a Word Art example. Then we'll meet in the chat room to have fun, chat, and create our Word Art layout!
We'll post the time on Sunday, as the time changes around each time to allow participation by our international folks.
Everyone can participate and create a layout, even if you can't make the chat. Hope to see you there!
Aussie
Chat Colour Chat
Monday, June 9th - 9:00PM
*Australian Eastern Standard Time*
Join Karen (Kazbar73)
for a Aussie Colour Chat and Challenge. Watch the boards on Monday
for the colour, then complete a layout and join me in the Live
Chat Lobby at 9PM Australian Eastern Standard Time. Hope to see
you there.
Let's
Leave Some Love Chat
Monday, June 9th -
1:00PM ET
Come join me (Launa)
and leave some love in the gallery. Bring a link to a layout
of your own that needs a little love and two links of layouts
that belong to someone else that need some love! Let's recognize
all that awesome talent we have out there! I'm sure at some point
chocolate will be discussed! So join me on Monday, June 9th at
1:00 EST in the Scrap Girls Chat Room! See ya there!!
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May
Events
May Board Game: Bingo
It's that time
again! Join us for an exciting game of BINGO on the Message
Board Forum in May! Pick 25 words from the list provided
in the forum and send them in an e-mail to [email protected] with
a subject line saying "BINGO CARD" and including
your message board user name by Sunday, May 4th in order
to play in the first round, which will begin Monday May
5th. Each day, members of the Welcoming Committee will
call 5 random words from the Bingo list. Match just 15
of those words to win a BINGO. You must be first to call
bingo in the forum to win that round. After a winner is
called, the boards can be cleared and a new round will
begin the following day. All winners win a $5 Gift Certificate
to the Boutique! We like to see lots of winners, so please
remember that each person can only win one round during
the month. Have fun!
If you miss the
first round cutoff date, you can still play! Just send
in your Bingo card at any time during the month and you'll
be eligible to begin playing when a new round starts. Everyone
who sends in a Bingo card will receive a confirmation email
that their card has been received. If you do not receive
confirmation within 24 hours, please re-send your list
of words. We cannot be held responsible for misdirected
emails.
May Layout Contests:
Layout
Contest: Life is short and passes us
by in a flash. Scrapbooking helps us remember the good
times, and the not-so-good times, too. We've all experienced
loss in our lives, but have you scrapped about that loss?
For the May Layout Contest, create a layout about someone
or something you've lost and remember the good times.
Upload your layout to the May Layout Contest Gallery
and you could win a $10 Gift Certificate to the boutique!
The contest runs until May 31st, at midnight EST!
Mid-May
Layout Contest: In this crazy, busy world we live
in, it's hard to find time for ourselves. Between work,
family and other obligations, life gets hectic. We all
deserve to make time to relax and concentrate on
ourselves! What do you do to spoil yourself? What is your
guilty pleasure? Create a layout about how you spoil yourself,
your guilty pleasure, and you could win a $10 Gift Certificate
to the Boutique! Just upload your layout to the Mid-May Layout
Contest Gallery before June 14th at Midnight EST, and you
could win!
Ongoing Opportunities
Customer
Muses: It occurred to us recently that
it might be wonderful for our readers to share with each
other their own versions of Ro's Life Muses. To have
your own essay considered for publication as a muse in
the column for our special Saturday newsletter, send
your essay to [email protected].
If your essay is selected, you will receive a $20 Gift
Certificate to the Scrap Girls Boutique.
Way
Cool Scrap Girl: We are so excited to
have all of you meet some of the amazing people that
have become Scrap Girls! We'd love to introduce you to
our readers, too! If you would like to be spotlighted
and win a $25 Gift Certificate to the Scrap Girls Boutique,
send the following items to [email protected]:
- 500-900 word essay about
your experience with digital scrapbooking, Scrap Girls, and
specific examples of how we have helped you.
- A 600-pixel wide, 72 dpi copy of a layout you've created
that uses Scrap Girls products.
- A complete list of any and all supplies used on the layout.
- A 100-pixels wide, 72 dpi picture of yourself. (How fun
to see who you are!)
- Permission to use your statement.
Customer
Freebies: We get a lot of requests from
you asking if you could share a freebie with your Scrap
Girls friends, and we have come up with a way to do it.
On Saturdays we will be sharing freebies created by you,
if they are available. If you are interested in participating,
download this
PDF with the specifications and you'll be on your
way.Please note that if you choose to use any Scrap Girls
tools or templates in your submission, commercial licenses
for those products are required. (Even our own designers
must purchase commercial licenses for any items they
wish to use in a non-personal manner!) If your freebie
is chosen, you will receive a $10 Gift Certificate to
the Scrap Girls Boutique!
Suggest
a Challenge, Win a Prize! Have a great idea
for a gallery layout challenge? Submit it to [email protected].
If your challenge idea is chosen, you will win a prize
(such as a brush set, paper set, embellishment set, etc.).
The prize will be a surprise, but you'll be sure to like
it because you will get to pick out the one you like
best from your category! Friday will be Customer Challenge
Day, so keep an eye out on the message board calendar.
It will be fun to see what YOU come up with for us to
do!
 Note
from Ro: Scrap Girls
is giving away birthday gifts to our message board members! Of
course, it is a surprise what you will get because birthday
presents are always surprises! But you will like it for
sure because most people like money... Oops! Did I say
that? No. You did NOT hear me say that.
Anyway, make sure your message
board email address is current and that you have the correct
date entered into your profile or you'll miss out! (You will
only be entering the month and the date, so don't be shy.
We won't know how old you actually are!) |
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Check our message
board calendar if you have any questions about what is happening
at Scrap Girls. All event times are given in Eastern Time Zone unless
otherwise noted. Need help converting time zones? Check
out the World Clock - Time Zone Converter. (Use 'USA-New York' as
the location for the Eastern time zone.)
Designer Freebie
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* There is a "free download"
button on the details page for each gift. You don't need to put them
in your shopping cart unless you are shopping for other items. Also
note that if you are slow reading your newsletter, you may find this
freebie has already been retired, as the freebies are only available
as gifts for about two newsletter cycles.
Free Digital Scrapbooking Starter Kit
The free digital scrapbooking stater kit
section is a standard newsletter feature for the benefit of the large
number of new subscribers that join our list every day.
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Would you like a chance to try
digital scrapbooking yourself?
Scrap Girls Refresh Collection
Biggie offers you samples of some of our most popular product
types. Try making a layout, your own paper with a ScrapSimple
Paper Template, a fast layout with a ScrapSimple Digital Layout
Template, or experiment with a brush.
We know you'll love digital scrapbooking
as much as we do, and we have thousands of products to feed
your new addiction!
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If you read nothing else, read
this!
15 Things You NEED to
Know to Become a GREAT Digital Scrapbooker. It's so
addictive; it ought to come with a warning label!
Free eBook "starter
kit" turns your dreams of digital scrapbooking
into reality today!
This dynamite eBook is 65 pages
- packed full of the information, ideas and help people need
when they are about to dive into this great hobby. It answers
questions about digital scrapbooking that Ro is asked all day
long, every day of the week, and each day of the year. You don't
have to wonder about important questions like how to back up
your files, whether you need a 12x12 printer to scrapbook digitally
(and which one to buy), or what type of computer software is
required to create digital scrapbooking layouts. The answers
are all here for you - in one easy to use eBook!
Bonus! Download the fun "Warning"
Label, too. It was created for you by Valerie Randall as a little
bit of extra fun!
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button on the details page for each gift. You don't need to put them
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Avoiding Digital Scrapbooking Meltdowns – Part 2
Friday, May 30, 2008
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In this issue:
- 17.8% Off Summer Blastoff
Sale!
- What's
New in the Scrap
Girls Boutique?
- Life Muses by Ro
- Tutorial: Tinting Black & White Photos
- Online Classes Currently Available
- What's Happening at Scrap Girls?
- Scrap Girls Convention - Digital Scrap Link Information!
- Contests
- Ongoing Opportunities
- Designer Freebie
- Free Digital Scrapbooking Starter Kit
- Scrap Girls Clubs
- Educational Products |
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The Scrap Girls newsletter is created
for you by a virtual army of Scrap Girls team members. Without
them, we couldn't possibly share these resources with you, and
I'm very grateful for their ongoing help and support.
I hope you enjoy today's issue as
much as we enjoyed putting it together.
Ro
CEO - Scrap Girls, LLC
P.S. Your email address is
safe with us. We never share, rent, sell, or loan our list with
anyone!
P.P.S. If you ever need any assistance,
please email [email protected]
or call
866-598-3444 and we'll help you as quickly as possible!
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Scrap Girls Clubs
Scrap Girls Monthly Club |
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Join
the Scrap Girls Monthly Club and you can have fun with
the newest traditional digital and printable scrapbooking looks
while saving! (A $26.93 value for $9.99 or less!)
The Scrap Girls Club contents
are released on the 1st day of the month (or the closest business
day to the 1st).
With the Scrap Girls Club, you
will receive:
Layout by Laurel Lakey using May's
Scrap Girls Club
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Created for you
by Erica Hite
Alert! Alert! SATURDAY
is the last day you can sign up for the Scrap Girls club and
still get this great group of products at this amazing price.
Don't delay... sign up now!
Remember, these items are available
separately in the Boutique at regular prices for those who would
rather not join a club.
(Note: The Scrap Girls Club
contents are always available for sale elsewhere in the Boutique
at their regular prices once the associated club month is released.
But all club contents are totally brand new, never seen before
product releases for each month!) |
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ScrapSimple Monthly Club |
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Join
the ScrapSimple Monthly Club and you can enjoy the newest
ScrapSimple looks while saving! (A $13.95 value for $6.99 or
less!)
The new ScrapSimple Club
contents are released on the 15th day of the month (or the closest
business day to the 15th).
With the ScrapSimple Club, you
will receive:
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1 ScrapSimple Paper Templates Set
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1 ScrapSimple Embellishment Template
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1 Brush Set
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1 ScrapSimple Layer Your Own Brush Set
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1 Designer's Choice Item
A Commercial Licensed version of the ScrapSimple
club is also available here.
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May's ScrapSimple Club
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Created for you
by Ariadna Wiczling and Syndee Nuckles
If you prefer not to join a club,
the ScrapSimple club contents are available at regular prices in
the Boutique. You can easily find them right now by checking the What's
New? section of the Boutique.
(Note: The ScrapSimple Club contents
are always available for sale in the Boutique at regular prices
once the associated club month is released. But all club contents
are totally brand new, never-seen-before product releases for each
month!) |
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Educational Products
MORE Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed! |
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*NEW!* MORE
Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed! for Adobe Photoshop (Versions
6, 7, CS, CS2, CS3)
MORE
Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed! for Adobe Photoshop Elements
versions 2.0, 3.0, 4.0 & 5.0
It's time for you to stop playing
catch-up in Photoshop and start having a blast doing the more
advanced tricks that you see other people and professional
digital scrapbookers doing.
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Take the world's easiest shortcuts to
creating your own backgrounds, embellishments, and alphas.
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Make sure that you don't make the biggest
mistakes that digital scrapbookers make when they create
layouts.
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Learn fantastic tricks for using Scrap
Girls ScrapSimple products.
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Dip your digital scrapbooking self into
some of those "other" cool tools that are sitting there
waiting in your software for you to use such as paths,
masks, the drawing pen, and more.
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See how easy it is to install and manage
new Custom Shapes and Styles in Photoshop so that you
can make things that are creative and unique.
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Learn advanced tricks for using tools
that you already know and love.
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Watch me make some beautiful papers and
get a chance to peek inside of my layers. (Oh dear...
That is the last frontier and I might be out of my mind
to let you do it... NOBODY likes people to see inside
of their layers. It is like having visitors peek inside
of your dresser drawers. Very private stuff.)
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See a new way for coloring doodles. (I'm
betting that it will surprise you what tool I've used
to do that with, too...)
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Get "IN" on creating your own brush sets.
(You do NOT have to have those impossibly long brush sets
frustrating you anymore. In fact, when you learn this
trick, you will wonder why you haven't been using it all
along.)
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Find out why Custom Shapes are so important
to you. (Bet you didn't know...)
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Learn how to cut out a title from a background
or a photo.
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And even more...
Note: These are NOT beginning
tutorials. If you get this training and you have never used
Photoshop before or if you aren't pretty sure of yourself
in the software, you are going to be lost. You simply have
to understand layers, where things are located, and all of
the basic, important skills that Ro teaches in her Scrapbook
Software Secrets Revealed series before you try
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Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed! |
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Scrapbook
Software Secrets Revealed for Photoshop Elements 6.0
Scrapbook
Software Secrets Revealed for Photoshop Elements 5.0
Scrapbook
Software Secrets Revealed for Photoshop Elements 4.0
Scrapbook
Software Secrets Revealed for Photoshop Elements 3.0
Scrapbook
Software Secrets Revealed (Photoshop)
Scrapbook
Software Secrets Revealed for Paint Shop Pro (PSP) X
Scrapbook
Software Secrets Revealed for Paint Shop Pro (PSP) 9
Are you wishing you could learn
how to scrapbook digitally, but feeling kind of intimated by it?
These tutorials allow you to actually watch Ro scrapbook. You'll
see her working on her computer and hear her talking about why
she is doing what she is doing. It's easy to watch the short, one-topic
movies over and over again until you have it down. It's like having
Ro come to your home and give you private scrapbooking lessons.
You could be digitally scrapbooking today!
After you watch the Scrapbook
Software Secrets Revealed movies, you will...
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Create your own digital scrapbook layouts
using the latest, most popular techniques
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Manage all of the important basics that
digital scrapbook enthusiasts need to know to get started
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Understand how to save your files for printing
or sharing them with your friends and family over the internet
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Make your own textured brush
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Learn how to install and use purchased brushes
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Make your own simple backgrounds
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See how easy it is to manage transparent
embellishment files that allow digital scrapbooking layouts to
look like they are "real"
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Become a pro at managing the drop-shadowing
techniques
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Learn about transparency and lighting effects
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Make your own digital torn paper edges
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Be able to isolate a single item in an embellishment
or alpha and be able to change the color to suit your fancy
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Become a pro at repairing damaged photos
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Know the secret of putting text on a curve
or in a circle
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Laugh at how simple it is to make rounded
edges on your photos
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Use keyboard and tool shortcuts that make
digital scrapbooking a breeze
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Be able to place digital embellishments
on your digital scrapbook layout with ease
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Unlock the mystery of how to clip a digital
paper clip onto your layout so that it looks real
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Learn how to install and use purchased textures
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Understand some advanced techniques such
as how to keep blue eyes blue on a black and white photo
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Learn how to adjust black and white photos
to sepia
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And lots more!
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Mastering Brushes |
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Mastering Brushes for
Photoshop Elements
This ebook was created from the popular online class Creative
Brushwork. It is perfect for the scrapbooker who wants
to go above and beyond the basic brushing techniques taught
in Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed for Photoshop
Elements. Make your layouts shine with the polish that
advanced brushwork can bring!
Photoshop
version also available! |
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The Beginners Guide to Filters
and Plug-ins |
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If you're at all curious about
filters and plug-ins, then The Beginners Guide to Filters
and Plug-ins for Photoshop and Photoshop Elements (Windows) is what you need! This 70 page ebook contains everything
you need to know to get started - what they are, what they do,
how to set up your computer, where to find them, how to get
them into your software, and more.
Paint
Shop Pro (PSP) version also available! |
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Digital Photography Simplified |
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Digital Photography Simplified
eBook: This eBook (full of easy to understand information
and photographic examples) is tailored to the beginning digital
photographer who wants to take better photos. More advanced
photographers will also benefit from this eBook with the sections
that get you out of your comfort zone.
So get ready to turn that dial away from AUTO and start taking
extraordinary photos! |
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Ten Beginner Tips on Type |
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If you're creating a digital scrapbooking layout, it's almost guaranteed that you'll be using type on your pages somewhere. But did you know that type can make or break your page? What typeface will you use? What size font? Where will you place it on your page?
If you want to take some beginner steps towards improving the type on your layouts, and thereby improving the overall look of your layouts, then this eBook is perfect for you. It's written in a very simple style, focusing on one digitally scrapbooked layout while walking you through ten tips that take type from mundane and awkward to eye-catching and cohesive. |
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Scrapbook Secrets for Microsoft Word |
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Look here to see all
of the things that you will learn with Scrapbook Secrets for
Microsoft Word, as it has a different set of benefits. |
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Start to Finish eBooklets |
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Start
to Finish eBooklet - PSE: How to Make a Birthday Scrapbook Page
Nothing could be simpler than
learning to scrapbook digitally with Scrap Girls Start to Finish
eBooklets. Step by step written guidelines and detailed screenshots
will help you learn new digital scrapbooking skills. Included
with the eBooklet are the actual digital files you need to create
a finished project!
Start
to Finish eBooklet - PS: How to Combine ScrapSimple Paper &
Photo Templates also available!
Start
to Finish eBooklet - PS: How to use ScrapSimple Tools: Custom
Shapes & Patterns also available!
Start
to Finish eBooklet - PS: The Beauty of Blending Modes: Using
them with ScrapSimple Products also available!
Start
to Finish eBooklet - PSE: How to Emboss & Texturize with
ScrapSimple Templates also available!
Start
to Finish eBooklet - PSE: Making a Just Because Card Using ScrapSimple
Card Templates also available!
Start
to Finish eBooklet - PSE: How to Combine ScrapSimple Paper &
Photo Templates also available!
Start
to Finish eBooklet - PSE: The Beauty of Blending Modes: Using
them with ScrapSimple Products also available! |
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